Paola Ferrante
BIO
Biography

Paola Ferrante is a writer living with depression. Her first collection of short fiction, Her Body Among Animals, is forthcoming September 2023 from Book*hug Press. Her debut poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack (2019), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize. She has won Grain Magazine’s Short Grain Contest for Poetry, The New Quarterly's Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, Room Magazine's Fiction Contest, and was longlisted for the 2020 Journey Prize for the story “When Foxes Die Electric.” Her work appears in After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century (2022), Best Canadian Poetry 2021 (2021), North American Review, PRISM International, and elsewhere. She was born, and still resides in, Toronto. 

ADDRESS
City: Toronto, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Fiction, Poetry
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Her Body Among Animals
Publisher
Book*hug Press
Year
Forthcoming September 2023
Title
The Dark Unwind
Publisher
knifeforkbook
Year
2022
Title
What To Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack
Publisher
Mansfield Press
Year
2019
Title
The True Confessions of Buffalo Bill
Publisher
Anstruther Press
Year
2018
AWARDS
Awards
Name
shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Publication
What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack
Year
2020
LINKS
Links
Paola Ferrante author website
Paola Ferrante Twitter
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